You and me both. As I age I am always doing mental comparisons such as "let me see, the Civil War was just 84 years before I was born; and Pearl Harbor is 71 years from today. So for kids I see walking around today WWII is just about as distant from them as the Civil War is from me." Makes most of history seem pretty recent.
I do that too. Great exercise to gain perspective.
the Civil War was just 84 years before I was born;
What i have thought about a lot is the scripture that says ( in the last days or end times that knowledge would be increased
Knowledge has been greatly increased and almost every thing has been in our day, it would not surprise me in the least to here that science has increased more since 1948 than every thing in history put together.